Sam Fisher Will Team Up with the Ghosts in the Next Wildlands Update

By
Vincent PeterApril 10, 2018, 11:10 a.m.

The iconic spy from Splinter Cell will make his debut in Ghost Recon Wildlands for a special event

Ubisoft just announced, seemingly out of nowhere, that they will be bringing a very special Splinter Cell-themed mission to their open-world tactical shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands. This special mission will be part of a free update and will see Sam Fisher - voiced once again by Michael Ironside - teaming up with the Ghosts for a high-stakes infiltration mission in Bolivia.

This free update will go live today for owners of Ghost Recon: Wildlands on both consoles and PC and can be downloaded for free. Aside from the special mission, the update will also add some Splinter Cell-themed content to the Ghost War PvP mode, exclusive customization gear, as well as a new character class to use in Ghost War. Upon completing the mission, you will receive some exclusive items including Sam Fisher's iconic nightvision goggles. While the mission will be in the game forever, these special items can only be obtained while the event is still running from today until May 16. You can get more details on the update in the trailer below:

We don't know if this is some sort of tease for a possible new Splinter Cell game or if it's just Ubisoft being their wonderfully strange selves. Between last year's excellent Predator update, the upcoming season pass content for Far Cry 5, the delightful Final Fantasy XV crossover with Assassin's Creed: Origins, and now this, it's kind of amazing to see Ubisoft being completely unafraid to get weird with their flagship franchises. I've talked at length before about everything Ubisoft has been doing right and, in light of bland and samey AAA gaming has been of late, it's great to see a big-name publisher refusing to lose sight of the inherent zaniness of videogames.